In my experience (playing with ansible, on and off, for quite a while) limitations or bugs in the tool often lead to your ansible scripts to become .. shell scripts.
The more raw/command/shell modules you have to use, the uglier the whole approach seems to me - and maybe not worth the trouble in the first place. If it can't be done 100% 'right', should I bother?
I put my efforts on hold so far. Ansible improved greatly (especially the documentation) lately, but .. it still feels cumbersome and hackish for my usecases.
Writing ansible modules is really easy however. They're essentially just executables (usually python, but really any language), that take in JSON, and output JSON.
The more raw/command/shell modules you have to use, the uglier the whole approach seems to me - and maybe not worth the trouble in the first place. If it can't be done 100% 'right', should I bother?
I put my efforts on hold so far. Ansible improved greatly (especially the documentation) lately, but .. it still feels cumbersome and hackish for my usecases.